Anticosti Island, Fm. Jupiter, Telychian Cyclocystoids (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Québec, Canada (49.5° N, 63.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.5° S, 33.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cybèle Member (Jupiter Formation), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• Earliest Telychian

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; limestone and shale

• broad, south-facing carbonate ramp
• - Medium grey, tempestite limestone, rich in crinoid columnals, bryozoans, and trilobite and brachiopod debris.

•-Deposits of limestones and shales

•- لأrey, sparsely fossiliferous, lithographic limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Primary reference: T. A. M. Ewin, M. Reich, M. R. Graham and M. E. Cournoyer. 2019. Perforocycloides nathalieae new genus and species, an unusual Silurian cyclocystoid (Echinodermata) from Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada . Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 93:625-635 [W. Kiessling/A. EL Manharawy/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208790: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Ahmed EL Manharawy on 12.04.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cyclocystoidea
  - Cyclocystoididae
Perforocycloides nathalieae Ewin et al. 2019
Perforocycloides nathalieae gen. et sp. nov., an articulated sample.